Screaming Into the Void (January 25, 2019)

Tony Budny pens SCREAMING INTO THE VOID and looks at the best in writing and social media conversation around the biggest issues in beer. If you feel something should be included, have a tip, or just want to sound off, feel free to look him up on Twitter @DrinksTheThings or email DCBeer.

Senator Mark Warner used the shutdown as an opportunity to talk to area feds furloughed, buy them beers and, of course, to day drink. Bill Butcher of Port City tells him, within that thread, that the TTB being shutdown has put their first 4 months of the brewing schedule in limbo.

Let's go back to Virginia. The long awaited expansion of Aslin, to keep those lines short, will happen a short drive from Port City. That is, of course, if the government ever reopens.

There are lots and lots of deals in the meantime both to make people feel normal while they’re not getting paychecks and to get people in who have actual money to spend to spend it alongside the feds who are furloughed. Keep the economy afloat and do your part.

Each week, Tony Budny pens SCREAMING INTO THE VOID and looks at the best in writing and social media conversation around the biggest issues in beer. If you feel something should be included, have a tip, or just want to sound off, feel free to look him up on Twitter @DrinksTheThings or email DCBeer.

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